Mural Painting Supplies

Series Summary

Feeling hemmed in by the drab walls in your living room? Bored with those same old posters and prints? Wish you were some place else when you sit down on the sofa to enjoy that glass of wine? Well why not add a palm-covered Jamaica beach or the rolling hills of an Italian vineyard to your mundane living space! With a wall mural you can conquer space and time to bring a scenic vista from anyplace you like into your very own home. Watch a knight joust outside of your veranda or an epic battle on Mount Olympus take place above your lazy-boy. Or simply recreate your favorite sunset from your last vacation. Anything is possible with a wall mural!

Painting a wall mural may initially seem like a dramatic artistic venture, but with step-by-step instructions, the process can be broken down into easily understandable and manageable segments. In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to paint a mural from start to finish. Beginning with the supplies you need to paint a mural and moving on to paints and themes, you'll move on to projecting images, painting backgrounds, and filling in details. You'll also be taught how to mix paint and how to seal the mural. An original piece of art for your living room or child's bedroom, a wall mural will bring a bold and eye-catching image to the forefront of everybody's attention, as well as adding life to interior decoration!

Video Transcript

"ANGELA FRACASSO: Hi, I'm Angela with ExpertVillage.com and I'm talking today about doing children's murals and what supplies you're going to need. So to start with the children's mural, you want to start with the wall, of course, your wall. And then you want to prep it with blue painter's tape and a drop cloth. Get everything protected that you don't want to get paint on. I use just simple paper plates. I like them because you can put your paints on them. When you're done with them, you just throw them away. Also with acrylic paints, you can use different mediums so some of them are runny. Some of them are thicker, and so you can just kinda mix them around. What's nice about doing children's murals with acrylic paints is you can use the cheaper brushes. You do not need natural hairbrushes. You can use acrylic brushes. They can be--you can find them at any crafts store, anything--you probably want to have several flat brushes and then also round brushes to do different techniques. You're going to want some acrylic mediums like a retarder which is an extender, which is really good for doing shadowing and things like that. And then whatever acrylic paint you want. You can use Liquitex. I really like Benjamin Moore acrylic paints but--that's what's nice about doing acrylic murals because you can use any kinds of acrylic paints and you can mix your mediums also. "